Ocean Seal
14th January 2012, 01:47
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/anti-transgender-rant-will-be-boon-girl-scout-cookie-sales/47365/
The latest person to troll Girl Scout with her weird social hangups thinks people shouldn't buy their signature cookies because the scouts let a transgender girl in last year, but it looks like her plan is going to backfire and cookie sales will climb. A video appeared last week (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/girl-scout-cookie-boycott-transgender_n_1199260.html), featuring a Ventura, Ca. girl identified only as Taylor, who said the organization was using proceeds from the cookie sales to promote "the desires of a small handful of people," Huffington Post reported (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/girl-scout-cookie-boycott-transgender_n_1199260.html) on Wednesday. Sherry Sybesma, the chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast, confirmed to us that the girl in the video is registered as a member of the council she runs. From what Girl Scouts administrators told us, and from what we're seeing online, the boycott effort is going to lead to more sales, if anything, from indignant supporters of the scouts and their decision last fall to accept a Colorado transgender kid named Bobby Montoya as a member (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/28/girl-scouts-of-colorado-flip-flops-on-allowing-boy-to-join/). The group that apparently produced the video, called Honest Girl Scouts (http://www.honestgirlscouts.com/index.html), has already started to walk it back. On Thursday, Honest Girl Scouts made the video private after it racked up more than 125,000 views on YouTube before it was made private (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y514LSe8FWk). We reached out to Honest Girl Scouts, and they sent us this one-line response: "Our counsel has advised us not to make statements until further notice. Thank you for your patience." We suspect, however, that they took it down because of the huge backlash calling on people to buy lots of extra cookies in response (more on that later). You can't watch the video, but Huffington Post transcribed some of Taylor's spiel:
"Right now, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A...is not being honest with us girls, its troops, its leaders, its parents or the American public," Taylor, who claims to have been a Girl Scout for eight years, says in the clip. "Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience. With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls' needs, but also safe for girls."
She goes on to note, "I am asking you to take action with me and boycott Girl Scout Cookies."
http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2012/01/12/girlscoutboycott.01122012.jpg
I love how reactionaries think that every possible type of progressive idea is collaborating against them in a conspiracy. The NWO Communist LGBT abortion doctors are coming to get us HELPUS Alex Jones.
The latest person to troll Girl Scout with her weird social hangups thinks people shouldn't buy their signature cookies because the scouts let a transgender girl in last year, but it looks like her plan is going to backfire and cookie sales will climb. A video appeared last week (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/girl-scout-cookie-boycott-transgender_n_1199260.html), featuring a Ventura, Ca. girl identified only as Taylor, who said the organization was using proceeds from the cookie sales to promote "the desires of a small handful of people," Huffington Post reported (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/girl-scout-cookie-boycott-transgender_n_1199260.html) on Wednesday. Sherry Sybesma, the chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast, confirmed to us that the girl in the video is registered as a member of the council she runs. From what Girl Scouts administrators told us, and from what we're seeing online, the boycott effort is going to lead to more sales, if anything, from indignant supporters of the scouts and their decision last fall to accept a Colorado transgender kid named Bobby Montoya as a member (http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/28/girl-scouts-of-colorado-flip-flops-on-allowing-boy-to-join/). The group that apparently produced the video, called Honest Girl Scouts (http://www.honestgirlscouts.com/index.html), has already started to walk it back. On Thursday, Honest Girl Scouts made the video private after it racked up more than 125,000 views on YouTube before it was made private (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y514LSe8FWk). We reached out to Honest Girl Scouts, and they sent us this one-line response: "Our counsel has advised us not to make statements until further notice. Thank you for your patience." We suspect, however, that they took it down because of the huge backlash calling on people to buy lots of extra cookies in response (more on that later). You can't watch the video, but Huffington Post transcribed some of Taylor's spiel:
"Right now, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A...is not being honest with us girls, its troops, its leaders, its parents or the American public," Taylor, who claims to have been a Girl Scout for eight years, says in the clip. "Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience. With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls' needs, but also safe for girls."
She goes on to note, "I am asking you to take action with me and boycott Girl Scout Cookies."
http://cdn.theatlanticwire.com/img/upload/2012/01/12/girlscoutboycott.01122012.jpg
I love how reactionaries think that every possible type of progressive idea is collaborating against them in a conspiracy. The NWO Communist LGBT abortion doctors are coming to get us HELPUS Alex Jones.